LIBERATOR

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Bernie Sanders wants to overthrow every aspect of US policy, he says with passion. But when it comes to supporting Palestinian human rights and abandoning pro-zionist militarism in the Middle East, the self-proclaimed "revolutionary" Social Dem becomes comically befuddled.

By William PLEASANT

"On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders called for the U.S. to approach the Israel-Palestine conflict to be a 'level playing field.' Speaking after his surprising victory in the Michigan Democratic primary, Sanders asserted that there are people of goodwill in both 'Israel and the Arab communities' whom he would seek to bring together as president.

“ 'All I can tell you is I will make every single effort to bring rational people on both sides together, so that hopefully we can have a level playing field, the United States treating everybody in that region equally,' Sanders said."

This is, of course, some sly bullshit from Bernie Sanders. Muslims and Arabs in Michigan gave Sanders a fistful of votes that enabled him to top the openly Likudnik Hillary Clinton. He has now tossed them a dry bone in gratitude.

What can Sanders' "level playing field" mean in the absence of a US policy of removing $3+ billion per year in US taxpayer funding to the squatter colony in Palestine? What could it mean in the absence of a PUBLIC policy of politically and financially sanctioning the zionist regime for its ongoing violations of international law and UN Security Council Resolutions? Can de-possessed Palestinians, scattered and impoverished around the world by the zionists, count on Bernie Sanders to enforce their legal rights to return to their homes and reclaim their stolen properties? Certainly, Sanders cannot believe that we are stupid enough to consider the colonized Palestinians and the US-financed and armed zionists colonizers as two peas in the same pod, equally-endowed teams on a game court. Sanders' playing field can only be equilibrated by ending US support for Israel. Is Sanders suggesting this as his answer to resolving the "Israel-Palestine" conflict? Let's see. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

This is the current US-financed and politically defended "PLAYING FIELD" for Palestinians that Bernie Sanders seeks to level, he says.

But Sanders gives a stunning clue to his real intentions, maybe inadvertently, when he says that there are people of goodwill in "both Israel and the Arab communities" that he will bring into negotiations. Sanders lets his zionist cat out of the bag at that point. You see, even liberal zionists like Bernie, for racist ideological reasons, cannot admit that there is a Palestine or that there are Palestinians who live there. He could have more accurately reached out to Israelis and Palestinians after the defeat of Hillary Clinton. But Sanders actually can't even utter the words Palestine or Palestinians. For in the psychotic zionist cosmology, Non-Jewish (Europeans and wannabe Europeans) residents of occupied Palestine can only be "Arabs"--a hostile racial group--in short, Wild Indians, varmints, etc., in the wild west lexicon.This denial syndrome, common to ALL zionists, precludes any peaceful resolution of the anti-colonial struggle for Palestine because there is no Palestine and there are no Palestinians to lawfully lay claim to any national or human rights. To accept their existence negates the entire zionist nation-building myth and renders Israelis as existential non-entities. This is a cruel version of the Pauli exclusion principle, i.e., two electrons in an atom cannot occupy the same space at the same time. As such, one particle has to vacate the premises. Is Bernie Sanders willing to countenance the "Jew" supremacist State of Israel withering away to be replaced by a non-racial, secular, democratic social entity (to be properly named later) on the Palestinian landmass where all ethnic and religious/cultural sectors can live and thrive in peace? Naw,,,Sanders is afflicted with the liberal zionist psychosis. But let's see if he can be cured.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

This is not an epitaph for Malik Sekou Osei, my dear friend who left this world on November 9, 2015, but the preface to a publication of his writings that he and I composed and published in our on-line journal known as LIBERATOR. I will produce and publish a book version in his honorin 2016.

My first
assessment of Sekou at learning of his death was spread around the world. It
was very terse, and it read:COMRADE
MALIK SEKOU OSEI SUCCUMBED TO THE RAVAGES OF DIABETES IN HIS BROOKLYN, NY HOME.
SEKOU WAS A PASSIONATE SCHOLAR OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST PRACTICE AND THEORY.
LIKEWISE, HE SPENT HIS CAREER SEEKING NEW WAYS TO COMMUNICATE HIS ACCUMULATED
KNOWLEDGE TO POOR AND WORKING PEOPLE IN THE US, AFRICA, ASIA AND EUROPE. A
POET, MUSICIAN AND TIRELESS ACTIVIST, MALIK SEKOU OSEI WAS MY FRIEND AND
LITERARY COLLEAGUE...PRESENTE! COMRADE
SEKOU!

I never knew
that Sekou was chronically ill. He never gave me any indication that he was
anything other than filled with vigor and hope. On November 8, 2015, the last
of our daily conversations, I called him from a hackneyed ribbon-cutting
ceremony in Baltimore. After glad-handing with the locally elected Black
Democratic Party hacks and their epigone and frightening all the local TV news
reporters, I called Sekou and had a big laugh. For more than an hour I
explained how the best thing that the Democratic Party and its Black camp
followers could answer the mayhem that gripped Baltimore after the
police-gangland rubout of Freddy Gray was a politically neutral mural exactly
at GROUND ZERO (Pennsylvania @ North Avenues a.k.a. zip code 21217, one of the
most devastated urban regions in the USA), the point where young and de-classed
Black people engaged in a battle royal
with the Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland State Police and the
Maryland National Guard. When the world heard “RIOT,” “BLACKS,” “BALTIMORE” the
mass media was talking about the corner of North and Pennsylvania Avenues.
After the bloodshed, mass arrests and destruction, the only thing that the
authorized negroes of Baltimore could come up with was a “Black, culturally
positive” mural against a wall facing exactly where hundreds of Black youths were
tear gassed, beaten and arrested by the armed forces of Maryland.

On November
8, 2015. Sekou and I spoke by phone and plotted the next installment of LIBERATOR that would address this
absurd historical/cultural/political failure. Anxiously, I awaited our next
conversation. The next day, I did receive a phone call from Sekou’s number, but
it was not from my colleague but from his wife Ama Tanks. She was distraught.
She found our dear Comrade Sekou asleep forever.

What was our
history together? Sekou and I spoke on a daily basis by telephone. We created LIBERATOR together from the substance
of those conversations. Where did I first meet Sekou? It was in 2010 at some
un-remarkable and impotent street demonstration in Lincoln Square (14th
St @ Broadway in Manhattan). I did not know him, but he knew of me from my work
at the DAILY CHALLENGE (NYC’s only
sort-of-Black daily journal) as the deputy editor.

He admired
me and I admired him immediately. Nonetheless, our social histories were
extremely different. I came from the US South, from a rather culturally
conservative but severely radical political family dating back to the ante
bellum era. Sekou came from the culturally florid Caribbean milieu, but his
family sang the obligatory, politically conservative immigrant song, so he
said. Sekou politically evolved from his teenage encounters with the Nation of
Islam and the legacy of Malcolm X. I politically evolved from the radicalism of
my family, the University of Chicago and the literal street fights that led to
the election of Harold Washington to the mayor seat in 1983. It is true that we
were both relatively well-trained musicians—he played bass, I played
Euro-concert trumpet—but that was about it in terms of commonality. We really
came from different social planets. But through dialogue, we discovered that we
politically and philosophically agreed upon everything. We simply came to the
same conclusions through different social paths. That is how our collaboration
on the on-line LIBERATOR was born.

What did we
agree upon? What were the philosophical and practical foundations of our UNITED
FRONT?

·We
were both Marxists and Lenin-inspired political economists on the question of
party organization and revolutionary practice.

·We
agreed that nothing could be done to reform the system of monopoly capitalism
and the dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.

·We
both concluded that the leading edge of class oppression, especially in the
Western Hemisphere, resided in the 500-year history of white supremacy,
socially characterized by genocide against the Indigenous Peoples, the chattel
enslavement of Africans and the outright theft of Latin American lands and
natural resources.

·We
saw Africa as a continent of great social and material resources continuously
laid waste by neo-colonial regimes and other compradorial bourgeois political
formations that aided the US and its European junior partners in looting the
labor, agricultural and mineral wealth of the land for the benefit and only for
the benefit of imperialism.

Africa's neo-colonial trash

·We
recognized that the violence of white supremacy could only be answered with
extreme counter-violence from the oppressed strata of society, and the poor desperately
required the appropriate social and theoretical training to bring grief to
their tormentors around the world.

·We
dismissed much of what was left of the Black Liberation Movement as hopelessly
theoretically under-developed and mired in cultural nationalistic
mysticism/romance, giving rise to a herd of so-called Black leaders who stroked
the backwardness of the de-classed and working class strata of Black America as
stooges for the Democratic Party, as petty sideshow brokers of Black discontent.

Brokers of Black discontent

·Sekou
and I were unrelenting in our denunciation of the erstwhile “Black” Pres.
Barack Obama, who we castigated as a Trojan Horse designed by the ruling strata
to mystify and pacify the historically restive Black, Latino and Native
populations, as well as much of the US
Left. We readily referred to him as BUCKWHEAT, that affable little colored boy
who tailed OUR GANG but was never actually granted membership in the white mob.

·We
realized that subjective circumstances of oppression do not necessarily lead to
objective social circumstances of revolt. Overwhelmingly, the collective
suffering of the people simply de-evolves into crass survivalism and escapist
routines that promote social atomization and further political disorganization.

Why do we call Pres. Obama BUCKWHEAT?

·Lastly,
Sekou and I observed the deterioration of Black culture and art into a
de-historicized corporate commodity, aesthetically driven by the illusions of
sexual gratification (sado-masochism) and the quest for the trinkets of
conspicuous consumption. In short, Black art and culture lay dead amongst the
political and intellectual ruins of the Black Liberation Movement. There can be
no humanistic or revolutionary art and culture without the theory and practice
of revolutionary social development.

No love, no art...

Malik Sekou
Osei was foremost my friend and political co-conspirator. He kept me going when
I was disheartened. I returned the favor. He inspired my writing and
re-affirmed for me that the quest for human fulfilment lived on among people
like him who would never bend a knee to superstition, opportunism or even the
threat of terror. In presenting Sekou’s writings through book form in the
coming months, I hope to inspire a larger audience and a new generation to
recognize that THE REBELLION OF THE SLAVES WILL BE THE WAR OF THE LANDSCAPES
and, as Sekou always signed off in his writing: HISTORY IS ON OUR SIDE BUT NOT TIME.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Here we all must begin in a not so easy discussion and that can be rather
complex that everyone may need to examine more than once. To the reader it’s
important to pick volumes I, II, III of Capital by the thinker Karl Marx to
approach a level of rigor beyond the American phenomenon of intellectual
sloganeering. Also what will be needed is two other books, the first one is by
Rudolf Hilferding and called Finance Capital (1910), the second book is by Geoffrey Kay Development
and Underdevelopment, A Marxist Analysis (1975).

RUDOLF HILFERDING

Capital as a social relation is an energetic
occurrence following a circuit of capital in which it takes on different forms
at different points of the circuit and its development within history. If we
can start with capital in the form of money (M), it is transformed into
commodities (meaning of the production and labor power) to become then
productive capital (P). The result of this process of production is commodity
capital (C) which has to be actualized through sales and thus re-transformed
into money capital. In that sense, capital assumes different forms, but M and C
by themselves are lifeless; it makes more sense to talk of capital having
specialized occupations and meanings within each stage of the circuit.

Productive
capital, (P) is a process. It is the factory or farm at work. In the case
of a hypothetical and theoretic, simple capital system the enterprise that runs
the factory may also have full control over dealing in commodities and money,
but in reality these processes have been specialized functions and are distinct
forms of capital. Merchant capital has the specialize function of
dealing in commodities. It is typified by the great trading houses that make
profits by buying and selling the raw materials for industry or by the many
multiple stores that trade in finished commodities (the C in the
circuit), but there are a variety of intermediary forms. To the degree that
banks simply deal in money (the M in the circuit) by exchanging it, they, too,
are operating a type of merchant capital. However, the development of the
monetary system in relation to these processes gives rises to CREDIT and the
development of a different, specialized form of interests-bearing
capital. Interests bearing capital is involved in the practice of lending
money capital to industrial capital so that the initial M in the circuit of
industrial capital is increased and expanded from that source.

We
have to go back to parts IV and V of Capital III. were involved with the
specialized forms of capital. They are a significant component in
authenticating and confirming Marx’s claim to be able to explain the
complexities of the world from principles uncovered by examining highly
abstract, general categories, for Marx reaches these chapters after having
examined the nature of capital in its undifferentiated forms. In Capital I and
II and the early parts of Capital III, Marx presented the laws of capital in
general, and of much industrial capital in competition, and Marx believed that
the specialized forms of capital could only be understood on the basis of these
laws. In particular, the earlier analysis uncovers the way in which SURPLUS
VALUE is produced and distributed between industrial capitals, whereas in parts
IV, V and the VII of Capital III the question is how this surplus value is
distributed in various types of revenue between different specialized form
being industrial capital alone, to industrial capital plus merchant capital
plus interest-bearing capital. And whereas in the earlier analysis surplus
value takes the forms of PROFIT. Industrial capital receives only
profit-of-enterprise while interest-bearing capital receives a portion of
surplus value as interest and merchant capital also receives profits,
commercial profit, which is a deduction from the total surplus value. The
revenues received by merchant capital and interest-bearing capital and their
separation from other forms of surplus value, merit further analysis.

19th century Europe

Merchant capital, operating in the realm of circulation does not directly
generate surplus value, but it does appropriate as profit some of the surplus
value that is generated in the only place possible, the sphere of production in
capitalist industry and agriculture. Merchant do more than simply buy
commodities for resale; order to accomplish their role they also expend capital
upon the labor power of shop-workers, clerks and so on. However, this labor is
unproductive according to objective laws; it does not directly produce surplus
value, although by reducing the cost of circulation below what they would have
been if non-specialist industrial capitalist had undertaken it, it may
indirectly contribute to it. Given that merchant capital does not generate
surplus value in a process of production controlled by it, its profit is
obtained from its dealing with industrial (and agriculture) capital. Merchants
buy commodities from industry below their value and sell them at their value.
The difference, which they appropriate, has a tendency to equal the general
rate of profit; competition ensures that the rate of profit accruing to
merchants on the capital they advance equals that accruing to industrialists on
their capital, and each equals the total surplus value divided by the total of
the (merchant and industrial) capital.

That
consideration of commercial profit ignores the deduction of interest; and the
nature of interest-bearing capital, too, is considered by concentrating on its
relation to industrial capital alone. Interest is paid by industrial capitalize
out of their profits, and what remains is profits-of-enterprise, a proportion
of the total. Marx considered that the proportions which result from this
division are a matter of “accidental” forces of demand and supply, so that no
general principles determining the rate of interest (or rate of
profit-of-enterprise) could be postulated except as the general limits to the
range of values it could take. .

The
final type of revenue which derives from surplus value is RENT, but this return
to land ownership is not the same as a return on a specialized form of capital.

The
specialized forms of capital are more than simply the basis for the division of
surplus value into different types of revenue, for the development of each has
an important historical impact. Although merchant capital depends on industrial
capital for the source of its profits, it arose in an early form before
industrial capital. Indeed, the role of trade and plunder in the rise of
capitalism, the process of PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION, means the merchant capital
was crucial for amassing the resources and stimulating the growth of social
relations that were necessary for capitalism. The early monopolists trading
companies were its typical representatives in this respect. However, although
merchant capital laid the origins of capitalism in Europe, it has been argued
that its predominance in Europe’s relation to the so-called third world blocked
the ability of the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to undertake
capitalist development. In the work of Geoffrey Kay, in his book Development
and Underdevelopment (1975) he argues that merchant capital within Europe lost
its independence as industrial capitalism developed, and therefore did not
hinder the development of the latter, the rise of a class making profits
through organizing production. In many countries of the Third World however,
merchant capital has continued to predominate, at least until recently, and to
exercise a rather deal of independence in pursuing profits through trading
rather than developing capitalist production. Geoffrey Kay argues this
independence has had a paradoxical character at least since the mid-nineteenth
century when it gained and lost its independence. Independence was retained in
the sense that it was the only form of capital in the underdeveloped countries,
but since, in the world as a whole, it coexisted with industrial capital it had
to modify its actions to act partially as an agent. It had to trade in the
later in the Third World. As an agent it had to trade in the manner required by
industrial capitalism (shipping raw materials and food to the capitalist
countries and selling their manufactured goods in captive 3rd World
Markets), and only influenced local production in the minimal manner necessary
to serve Europe’s need for raw materials and food.

European imperialism and the suppression of 3rd World economic development laid the political foundation for contemporary capitalism.

Interest-bearing capital’s role in history was recognized and acknowledged by
Karl Marx in terms of the effect of the credit system on the centralization of
capital and mainly on the founding and quick development of JOINT-STOCK
COMPANIES. These developments were seen as exhibiting a new step and as having
an important and noteworthy consequence. This is to give rise to the
responding and thwarting tendencies to the FALLING RATE OF PROFIT, since those
who advance capital to the joint-stock companies are believed to accept a lower
return as a result of the control of interests as a form of surplus value. And
they give rise to a change in class configuration as the actually operational
capitalist is distinguished from owners of the capital which the industry uses.
Interests-bearing capital, however, does not lie in repose unchanged once it
arises; it develops more complex characteristic and Hilferding back in 1910
laid out in his book called Finance Capital the other
factor that he identified as the transformation into FINANCE CAPITAL as
especially complex, but through it all there is a needed rigor of understanding
beyond protest slogans.

This
discussion has never been easy and too many approach this river without the
ability to swim and they drown by their lack of training and rigor. I have
suggested the review of three important works that lay foundations for study.

Right now it is important to understand, living in the imperialistic
epoch, the different forms of capital and their functions and the maintenance
and power of an economic system that thrives on the spread of material
underdevelopment and human suffering and which fosters a culture of urban degeneracy,
of urban rugged individualism and information ignorance as the norm. Our
intelligentsia, meanwhile, postures in performance only to entertain everyone
to death.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders must support the agendas of People of Color, the working class and progressives before he can count our votes.

Let us assume that the self-described
socialist candidate Bernie is something other than a pantomime leftist shill
for Hilary Clinton in the upcoming 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Let us take on faith that he pursues a radical reorganization of US society
that will truly benefit working and poor people, a new political awakening that
will promote international peace and human rights, a revolutionary social dawn that
will bring the current racist legal and extra-legal onslaught against Blacks,
Latinos, Asians and Indigenous Peoples to an end. If these assumptions are
correct, then Sanders is worthy of the support of all progressive people,
particularly people of color.

At this time, Bernie
Sanders’ stated program and public performance do not support the above assumptions.
We are treated with his eat-the-rich, populist platform that fails to even
remotely address the concerns and aspirations of the very people who are
critical to his success at the polls.

There is no basis for
People of Color, feminists, anti-imperialists, civil libertarians, environmentalists
and SOCIALISTS to cast their votes for Bernie Sanders, except as an impotent
gesture of revulsion against Hillary Clinton.

As long as we fail to make Democrats accountable to our demands, they laugh their way to elected office on our backs.

In 2008 and 2012, the US
progressive and non-white communities were seduced by Barack Obama to support the
slogan “HOPE and CHANGE.” They stampeded to the polls for the first “Black”
president with the assumption that Obama would revolutionize US political
culture. Obama actually made no promises to anybody and, in two terms, he has
delivered nothing to his most passionate core constituencies. The charge that
Obama “sold out” is utterly false. The fact of the matter is that he was never “bought
in” to a pro-working class, pro-Black or progressive agenda. Bernie Sanders declares that he is committed to an anti-racist and socialism-driven society. We have an obligation to hold him accountable to his erstwhile radical sophistry .

But does Bernie Sanders’ current political
offerings address a progressive or pro-People of Color agenda? No!

Frederick Douglass

Grazed silly on identity politics and operatively
disarmed by the US Left’s inability to forge a mass party with anything
approaching ideological and practical clarity, America’s needy are doomed to
exchange their electoral support for the Democratic Party for social crumbs or
less. As it stands now, there is no power in supporting Bernie Sanders for the
sake of supporting a dubious anti-Hillary Clinton or Sanders’ milky notion of
“democratic socialism.” We must support our agenda and give our funds and votes
to candidates who pledge to support our agenda, nothing less is acceptable at
this historical juncture.

As the firebrand abolitionist crusader Frederick
Douglass remarked, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did
and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you
have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed
upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or
blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress.”As such, Bernie Sanders’ program must be amended to include
our Political Demands. He may choose to ignore our demands or obscure them in
his campaign, but we must be willing to equally ignore his plea for our support
at the polls. The age of feel-good
politics is over. It died in the neo-liberal, imperialistic disaster of the Obama regime.

So that there is no confusion over what we aim to attain by
supporting Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party primary election
process, our fundamental policy demands are stated below.

DOMESTIC AGENDA

·A race-targeted
jobs program for African Americans and other deprived adults and youths
of color.

·Reverse the
Hyde Amendment. Free or low-cost abortion on demand. Federal prosecution for anyone
attempting to interfere with a patient’s access to ANY clinic and medical
procedure. Mandatory public School contraceptive and parenting training.

·Strengthen
unions--overturn laws that ban workers' right to strike. Make it easier for
workers to organize via a card check system.

Single payer national health insurance. Promote Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) in urban areas as alternatives to nursing home confinement. Keep the elderly and the infirmed in their homes! End psychiatric patient de-institutionalization schemes. Replace drug-driven behavior control regimens with actual, holistic psychiatric therapy. Decriminalize narcotic use. Provide a national system of federal drug rehab centers.

Workers need a living wage but they also require political power. That means they must have an alternative to the white, male-dominated twin parties of monopoly capitalism.

·Strengthen
voting rights. Automatic voter registration at the age of 18. No felony
disenfranchisement. Criminalize gerrymandering as conspiracy to violate the Voting Rights Act. Pass a constitutional amendment to
overturn the Citizens United ruling.

·Re-submit
the Equal Rights Amendmentfor
states’ ratification.

·Reverse the 5-year
limitation on public assistance cases.

·Increase the
federal minimum wage to $20 per hour and index it to inflation. Introduce
a constitutional amendment establishing a nation-wide minimum income.

·Financially
sanction state governments that incarcerate non-white peoples in excess of 5.0%
more than their representation in the overall state population.

·Federal
investigation and prosecution of all charges of police brutality and corruption.
Establish a federal prosecutor and standing grand jury in each congressional
district dedicated to pursuing charges of official misconduct under the color
of law. Provide federal funding incentives to municipalities and counties that
establish civilian-only law enforcement oversight commissions.

·Free all political
prisoners, especially those incarcerated during the liberation struggles of the
1960s, 1970s and 1980s—FREE MUMIA ABDUL JAMAL and LEONARD PELTIER!

Mumia Abu Jamal, framed by the US government like 100s of other activists and radical intellectuals.

·Stop the
persecution of whistleblowers. Free Chelsea Manning and all imprisoned whistleblowers.
Drop all charges against Edward Snowden.

Reopen the investigation of the 2001 9-11 Massacre. Make ALL findings public. Indict and prosecute US elected officials and assorted personnel who may have acted as conspirator in the atrocities.

·Permanent
Resident status for any undocumented migrant who has paid federal wage tax for
12 consecutive months. Place a moratorium on ALL deportations where parents may
be separated from minor children. Cease incarceration of all non-criminal
undocumented migrants, especially minors, facing the deportation process.
Strict and robust enforcement of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Cease immigration
discrimination against Chinese females and others based upon country of origin.

Thousands of undocumented migrants, including minor children, languish in filthy and disease-ridden prisons-for-profit.

·Promote a comprehensive
program to modernize, rebuild, and strengthen the nation's infrastructure, paid
for through a federal stocks and bonds transaction fee and taxes on commercial
banking transactions.

·Establish a
federal WPA-style fine arts and performance program in each congressional
district to provide stable employment to cultural workers and enhance the
cultural sophistication of the residents.

·Reverse Race to
the Top, high stakes testing educational policies. Allocate federal educational
funding based on the needs of the students in public school districts. Establish
a minimum federal school subsidy based on the average national cost per student
per school district statistics. End federal support for charter schools and
vouchers that undermine public schools. Federally mandate fine arts training in
all public schools.

·Robust enforcement of the CLEAN
AIR and CLEAN WATER Acts. End fracking. Provide income tax incentives to
private and commercial property owners who utilize renewable energy sources.

·Ban GMO livestock and vegetable
products.

·Promote family farming cooperatives through income tax incentives.

·Create a bullet train and super
highway system that links Chicago, Illinois to Santiago, Chile.

INTERNATIONAL AGENDA

·Reduce the US
military budget by 50% in the next five years.

·End all US
applications of mercenaries and other armed proxies in neo-conservative schemes
of “regime change.”

ISIS, al-Nusra, al-Queda, Free Syrian Army and other assorted barbarians are really trained and paid mercenary tools of US imperialism.

·Complete military
non-intervention in the domestic conflicts of any nation unless endorsed by the
United Nations Security Council.

·Strict adherence
to the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions with special emphasis
on the (1949) 4th Geneva Convention statutes pertaining to the treatment of civilians
during armed conflict.

·Strict and
robust enforcement of the Neutrality Acts (1794, 1935, 1937), prohibiting the
participation of US citizens in foreign armed conflicts as political partisans
or mercenaries, and likewise outlawing arms sales and bank loans to foreign belligerent parties. End the practice of granting dual citizenships, except
through an explicit act of Congress and on a case-by-case basis.

Israeli soldiers and squatter lynch mobs indulge in atrocities against the Palestinian people with impunity solely thanks to US political corruption and $10 million-plus per day in direct US funding.

·Strict and
robust enforcement of the Leahy Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Actwhich prohibits the U.S.from providing military assistance to
foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity--including the repression of girls and women. The
Leahy Amendment must be expanded to cut military assistance to ALL military
programs of human rights offending regimes. Moreover, non-signatory nations to
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) must be likewise barred from
receiving any US financial aid, as currently demanded by existing US law. This calls for the immediate removal of all US military
and police force financial aid to:

·India

·Pakistan

·Israel

·South Sudan

·Indonesia

·Burma

·Immediate
recognition of Palestinian statehood.

·Commercial and
political sanctions against Israel until the illegal siege of Gaza is lifted. Declare the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) an agent of a foreign nation (Israel) and rescind its tax-exempt status.

·Establish US membership in
the International Criminal Court system. Ratify the Treaty of Rome.

·Cash and in-kind
reparations to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.

·Indictment and
prosecution of Bush regime operatives who engaged in war crimes, including
torture.

·Close Guantanamo
Bay Prison. Release all detainees. Abandon the Guantanamo navy base. Give the
land back to Cuba.

·Rescind the TPP
and other trade regimens that harm the interests of workers, loosen
environmental and health laws and promote neo-liberal monopoly agendas.These few demands should be publicly adopted by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign if Sanders expects the support of progressives and People of Color. The ball is in Sanders' court and the clock is ticking.

About Me

LIBERATOR is brought to you by BLACK COMMIE BASTARDS USA, a loose collection of under-employed East Coast Negro Writers who find no redeeming value in bean pies, Cornell West, blank verse or the Democratic Party.
We trace our roots to the Revolutionary Sex & Fun Party and its polemic against ribbed condoms during the early 1980's. Many of our founding members have gone on to long prison terms and/or non-tenure track teaching positions at America's leading ghetto junior colleges.
Our central slogan is: A PEOPLE DEFEATED WILL NEVER BE UNITED!
So, sit back, relax and enjoy what post-post modern, pre-gotterdammerung Black Left politics looks like. We promise turbo-Marxist critique and satire, as we prepare for the return of PORKY CAPERS in all HIS glory and THE RAPTURE--December 25, 2016 @ Rikers Island, NY.
Before PORKY comes, many will be indicted, but even more will be incarcerated...